Photography blog
A photography site on Sitepaste is Markdown posts with images dropped in. Upload the full-resolution files; Sitepaste converts them to WebP for fast loading (without resizing them) and strips EXIF and GPS metadata by default. You can keep the metadata per upload if you want it shown.
A photo post
The best photography blogs pair the images with the story of the shoot. That is a Markdown page:
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title: Golden hour at Cannon Beach
tags: [landscape, oregon]
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We arrived just before 6pm. The tide was going out and the
light was doing that thing where everything looks like a painting.
I shot this at f/8, 1/250s.
Tags let visitors browse by genre, location, or project.
Galleries
Pages with multiple images can render as galleries. Theme settings control the layout, including masonry and full-width options, and you can order photos by the date they were taken. A “Download all” option lets visitors grab a gallery as a ZIP, which you can enable site-wide or per page.
The Photographer theme is built for exactly this kind of site (themes are a Pro feature).
Client galleries
Password-protect a page and everything on it is protected with it, including the gallery and the download. Share the password with the client and keep the rest of your site public. For a full client site, you can instead protect the whole site with one password. See Password protection.
Growing the site
Add a standalone page for booking info, or a section like /portfolio/ for curated work separate from the blog. With Pro, put it all under your own domain, and use an API token to publish from Obsidian or your phone on the way home from a shoot.